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(No Model.) P. W. WALL.-

- HOOK AND EYE. No. 522,541. Patented July 3, 1894.

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FR DE Io w-ATsoN WALL, OF 'FoRT WORTH, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- --HALF T0SIDNEY MARTIN AND JAMES HARRISON, or SAME PLACE.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 522,541, dated July 3,1894. I

Application filed October 31,1893. Serial No. 489.593. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that .I, 'FREDERIC WATSON WALL, of Fort Worth, in the countyof Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

This invention consists in a hook and eye fasten ng of novelconstruction, substantially as hereinafter shown, described and pointedout in the claims.- Said invention, although applicable wherever hooksand eyes are suit able, 1s more especially designed for fasteningdresses andclothing, such for instance as dress bodices, and when soapplied the improved hooks and eyes prevent gaping of the dress front,keep the latter in perfect alignment and when hooked prevent the dressor garment from being accidentally unhooked.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a 'part ofthe specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a face view of a hook and eye embodying theinvention, and in engagement with each other. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe same applied to the meeting edges or portions of a dress bodice orother article shown only in part and in section.

A indicates the hook portion of the fastening, and B the eye portionthereof. Each of these members is made of a separate and continuouspiece of wire doubled over upon itself to form a' base portion 79 and areturn portion q; and bent to form in the one member A the hook proper aand opposite open side loops -b, b, for securing by stitching orotherwise, as

at c in Fig. 2, said member'A to the one piece of cloth or meetingportion D of the garment. The piece of wire'which constitutes the othermember B is doubled over upon itself and bent to form the eye proper ewith which the hook proper a engages, and also to form opposite openside loops 1) b for sewing, by

stitchin or otherwise as at c in Fi 2 said member B to'the other pieceof cloth or meeting portion D of the garment.

Another very important feature of my invention is constructing themembers A, B,with

abar or branch .01, extending laterally outward in approximatelystraight or crosswise direc tionsfrom opposite sides of the members Aand B at or below the root end of the hook proper a and eye proper e ofthe member B. These bars or branches at may be formed by the extensionof the main body of each wire,

and afterward doubling such extensions over shown in Fig. 2, come inline with the front edges of the goods or bodice, and which branches dcome in contact at theirouter ends f with correspondingstrips orbranches d of the adjacent hooks and eyes in the same line or course, asshown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The eye proper 6 projects beyond thebranches d of the eye member B and over the branches (1 of the hookmember A. This feature, and the factthat the branches dof adjacent hooksand eyes are in contact with each other at their outer ends f, preventthe goods or bodice from gaping, and the branches d of the several hooksand eyes in the same line or course form an unbroken edge orcontinuation,whereby strain on the goods will not be thrown on,

the pointsof the attached fastenings, and the return portion extendinglongitudinally over the base portion from the upwardly-curved endthereof, the said return portion being provided withtransverselydisposed essentially plane open loops located at some distoobranches, and curved up at its opposite end,

and a return portion extendin glongitndin ally over the base portionfrom the upwardlyourved end thereof, the said return portion beingformed with the eye proper, and being 15 provided, intermediate of thebend that joins it to the base portion, and the eye proper, withessentially plane, transversely disposed open loops, substantially asdescribed.

FREDERIC WATSON ALL.

Witnesses:

J. L. WATTS, J. T. LOFTON.

